John Blakemore
Pebbles, Friog, Wales, 1975
Vintage Gelatin Silver Print
28.5 x 36.5 cms
11 3/16 x 14 5/16 ins
Series: Landscape 1970-1981
10582
Exhibitions
John Blakemore. Seduced by Light at the Centre for British Photography (8 June - 24 September 2023)
Signed and titled beneath the image and again on the back board. Original mounted exhibition print. John Blakemore writes of this picture: 'This image of a collection of pebbles was...
Signed and titled beneath the image and again on the back board.
Original mounted exhibition print.
John Blakemore writes of this picture:
"This image of a collection of pebbles was made late on a winter's day in low sun. The retreating tide had left the small pebbles precariously balanced, making points of significance in the mass of the beach. I was enjoying the sound and surge of the retreating tide, and made the image to celebrate the gleam of the pebbles, with the rhythmic placement of the larger stones revealed by the dying light... This was a high-contrast subject, and the negative received full exposure and reduced development. This is almost a straight print, but the top left corner needs some burning in to balance the print tonally."
(From 'Sound of the Sea', 1977)
British Photography / The Hyman Collection
Original mounted exhibition print.
John Blakemore writes of this picture:
"This image of a collection of pebbles was made late on a winter's day in low sun. The retreating tide had left the small pebbles precariously balanced, making points of significance in the mass of the beach. I was enjoying the sound and surge of the retreating tide, and made the image to celebrate the gleam of the pebbles, with the rhythmic placement of the larger stones revealed by the dying light... This was a high-contrast subject, and the negative received full exposure and reduced development. This is almost a straight print, but the top left corner needs some burning in to balance the print tonally."
(From 'Sound of the Sea', 1977)
British Photography / The Hyman Collection